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apologize.assen refused to slater got on the address system and said, quote, to the passenger who called me an expletive, blank you. he then said that's it, i'm done. and in an escape fit for the movies, slater opened an exit door and inflated the plane evacuation slide, grabbed two beers and simply shid away, leaving the passengers and a career behind. slater left the airport and headed to his home. authorities tracked him down and descended upon him with what

neighbors call the full force of the new york city police department. >> they were all over the place, s.w.a.t. teams it looked like, helicopters, everything. >> reporter: a hometown neighbor says slater was stressed out caring for his dying mother. >> it's just really sad. i think he's in more pain and his mom's in more pain than anybody on the plane. >> reporter: slater is now being seen as an every day hero, a co-worker on the flight told the daily news, quote, it's something we all fan take size about. the internet has exploded with support.take size about. the internet has exploded with support. his facebook page filled with messages. i raise a glass in your honor. way to go. and you are my new hero. slater will be arraigned this morning for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. an aviation expert tells us that that plane that he was on board will be out of commission for the next three days until a repaired evacuation slide can be inspected. >> michelle miller at jfk this morning.

thanks. joining us live in our studio this morning is phil catelinet who was a passenger on the plane. what did you see and heard on the plane and remember no expletives, please. >> somebody got upset about a bag. i didn't see anything happen. i didn't hear anything happen only i was waiting to get off the plane. i was about halfway back. and somebody -- one of the flight attendants made this announcement where he swore at a passenger and we -- the few of us that were still waiting to get off thought that's weird, nobody ever swears on the intercom. somebody's going to be in trouble. and then i didn't know there was more to it until i got out of the -- off the plane into the terminal and heard people talking about the emergency slide. and i got to the air train and saw it guy sitting there and, you know --

>> and did you recognize him as a member of the crew? >> i it. i recognized him from the flight. >> so you see him, you're both there, what was his demeanor, did he seem upset, did he seem agitated? >> he seemed actually pretty relieved that he was done working for jetblue, that he was glad his job there was done. >> was he talking about the situation? >> there was another passenger there with me, and the two of them were talking. and most of the flight attendant did most of the talking and talked about how many years he'd worked in jetblue and worked as a flight attendant. and dealt with passengers giving him trouble. and the other passenger asked him about the emergency slide and what would happen to the plane. and he said, oh, that plane's out of commission for a couple of days. it's done. >> so he clearly knew what would happen. >> oh, yeah, he knew. >> but he didn't seem all that bothered by it? >> no, he seemed very glad that his job was done and looking forward to whatever comes next career wise. >> so what are you thinking as you're witnessing all of this especially having been a part of this on the plane? >> well, i had nothing to do with it other than hearing it.

>> right, you didn't cause it. >> i was not involved that way. i was actually -- this is the kind of thing that i would tweet about, so i was listening to the conversation, but i didn't want to talk to him because i didn't want to hook like i was waiting to tweet about this. but i didn't understand at first what had happened. i noous a passenger >>eemed unruly, passenger or crew? >> no. he was uas about halfway back. so i only saw him at the beginning of the flight and then i recognized him again when i saw him at the air train. >> there's been an interesting reaction, sort of a wave of different reactions as you look at this last night and today. we just heard michelle's piece one of his co-workers said some this is something they fan take size about, someone on line

saying you're my hero because we hear what they have to put up with these days. what do you think of him? >> i think it's a funny way to quit your job, but i really don't think he thought this through. i don't think he understood that he was going to get this trouble for doing this. everybody has a bad day and fan take sizes about telling their boss it take this job and shove it, but you don't want to do it and get arrested.heir boss it t shove it, but you don't want to do it and get arrested. and the other thing that sort of bothered me is he is a flight attendant and you don't want somebody in that position lose their cool that way. i understand they've always got passengers who give them trouble. there's always somebody on a flight who has a problem. but this is part of the job. >> so you need to keep it together. >> i think so. >> well, phil, we're glad you were there and glad you put it into 140 characters or a little bit more with your tweets. thanks for being in the studio this morning. >> thank you. jeff glor has the rest of the morning's headlines. >> not sure i can top that, but

good morning, everyone. in four key states, it is primary day today. one important indicator of who will win is actually who shows up to vote. cbs news correspondent whit johnson is in west hartford, connecticut with more this morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, democrats will be watching today's races very closely. not just to see who wins, but to see if republicans can maintain that high energy, high voter turnout sweeping the country heading in to november. last minute campaign calls are being placed. >> i'm calling to encourage you to vote for karen handel tomorrow. >> reporter: and it's republicans that are answering. a recent pew research study shows gop enthusiasm is at a record high. 77% say they're certain to vote this year compared to 65% of democrats. >> anger is a real mote traitiv. >> reporter: high unemployment and a stalled economy will likely play a major role in today's primary. also fueling excitement,

campaigning by stars like sarah palin. >> so, georgia, are you towayouo bring it on? >> reporter: palin rallied for karen handel. her opponent nathan deal is backed by former presidential candidate mike huckabee. >> it's so important that we elect her. >> reporter: out west, john mccain rallied support in the colorado senate primary. and in connecticut, the gop hopes a national wave of enthusiasm with outsiders will help them quoefr run the u.s. senate seat democrat chris dodd held for five terms. heading in to the primary, polls show pro wrestler executive linda mcmahon, wife of vince, is expected to beat former congressman rob sim ons for the republican endorsement. and linda mcmahon has already spent more than $20 million of her own money on her campaign. she's expected to face democrat and connecticut attorney general richard blumenthal in november.

>> whit johnson, thank you. drilling continues in the gulf to complete the relief well. and permanently stop the oil flow from bp's blownout well. the relief well is now within 30 feet of the main shaft. as early as friday, engineers could begin pumping mud and see nmt to to permanently kill the well. and a case of mcnugget rage. surveillance individual yoe show as woman in toledo, ohio attack workers at a mcdonald's drive through after they told her chicken mcnuk gets were not available at that hour. the woman also broke the window. she was later arrested and

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sydnie kohara. good morning. it's 7:25. in the headlines,an 18-year- old is under arrest for sunday night's fatal shooting near union square in san francisco. a 50-year-old tourist from germany was hit and killed by a stray bullet. it was apparently fired when two groups of young people started shooting at each other. members of oakland's police union have decided they are willing to pay more into their retirement accounts in exchange for a no layoffs guaranty. the concession depends on oakland voters approving a parcel tax in november. and today, get ready the chp and local law enforcement cracking down on drivers who talk on their phone without a hands-free device. it is a zero tolerance campaign in the bay area. officers who stop drivers who are illegally driving and

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good morning. this new accident is reported for westbound 4 making a big line of red through our commute through antioch. all we know is at least one

lane is block. commuting through san francisco, stretch of duboce, one lane is blocked. fire crews are working to clear a small residential structure fire in the area. bay bridge toll plaza metering lights have been on now for almost an hour. we are seeing the biggest delays to the end of the first overcrossing and mostly in fastrak lanes. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. ocean beach it morning, plenty of clouds along the coastline. even a little drizzle for the morning. conditions as we move into the afternoon here's a look at our seven-day forecast. and we are expecting temperatures in the same ballpark as yesterday. cloudy along the coast and highs near 60. partly cloudy conditions around the bay with a daytime high in the mid-60s. plenty of sunshine inland and mild in the lower 80s. we are warming up thursday, and we'll take all that warmer weather into the weekend. ,,,,,,,,

welcome back to the "early show" on a tuesday morning. you're about to meet a pretty incredible woman. about five years ago, she gets an infection just after giving birth to a baby. a flesh-eating virus. when it all happened, she was seven months pregnant at the time, so she has the baby, then ends up spending years in the hospital. we'll speak to her exclusively this morning, find out what it's like to give birth and then spend the next few years in the hospital battling this horrible infection. wanting to be this for your child. wild story. and on a much lighter note, levi johnston isn't letting his second breakup with -- in case anybody's keeping score -- with

bristol palin slow him down. he's going to star in a new reality show and it's all about him running for mayor of wasilla. that's right, he's gunning for his would have been mother-in-law's old job. >> which came first, the show or the campaign? >> i wonder. first we do want to get to the sex scandal at hewlett-packa hewlett-packard. barry ellison blasting the decision to get rid of mark hurd. he call it is cowardly, the worst move since apple first forced steve jobs out 25 years a ago. rebecca jarvis has the latest. >> reporter: mark hurd took the helm five years ago go. under his leadership, the cody verse filed to become the world's largest maker of personal commuters. and the stock price nearly doubled. >> visionary, no question about it. a serious no nonsense guy. >> reporter: but last friday, the married ceo was forced to

resign following allegations that he falsified $20,000 in expenses to conceal a relationship with business associate jody fisher. from 2007 to 2009, hp paid fisher as an event organizer. fisher claims hurd sexually harassed her. although an internal investigation cleared him, hurd settled with fisher for an undisclosed amount. >> that's unacceptable. it's bad pr. and the executive has to go. >> most people would say i don't act my age. >> reporter: fish area former actress appeared in the reality show the "age of love" competing with younger women for dates. >> you're about to have fun. >> reporter: she also played roles in steamy movies and hosted infomercials. hurd is exiting with a payout estimated at $35 million. the market reacted violently. hp's stock lost $9 billion in value on monday. but analysts believe a rebound could be just around the corner. >> the company is still strong. wall street's saying the problem

now has been replaced. >> reporter: that $40 million severance show just how highly valued he was. his departure also illustrates how complicated it is to fire a top executive without giving them that big payout. >> i know there's more behind it, but if you're the average layperson, you think this guy has to leave in disgrace, he may have done a good job, but how is he able to still walk away with $40 million? >> right now by the way we

just ahead, it is a remarkable new development in the battle to prevent always i'mer. >> dr. ashton has details on a new test that can accurately predict whether or not you'll get the disease. that's coming up here on "the early show" on cbs.

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there has been a major breakthrough in the prediction of alzheimer's disease. a new study says a spinal fluid test can accurately predict whether a patient will develop the disease. with more is our own dr. jennifer ashton. so how does the test work? is this a real spinal tap? >> this is a spinal tap also known as a lumbar puncture. and it's a small needle that's inserted at the base of someone's spine in their back that chekts some of the through i had that circulates around the brain. what they're looking for is proteins known as tau and am

made llo amyloid, that clog up the sig l signals and comes out in the spinal fluid. when that's removed with a simple spinal tap, it can then be studied and the test is found to be very accurate. >> the front page of the "times" says it's 100% accurate. >> let's go through the numbers. they looked at about 300 patients and what they found is in 90% of the patients with alzheimer's, they found these proteins. they found them in 72% of patients with mild cognitive impairment, so they're showing signs of memory loss. and then they found them in 36% of people who were normal. >> how do you interpret that data then? when you look at that data, what does it tell you? >> i'll tell you how the test was 100% accurate. in the patients with mild cognitive impairments, all of those patients, 100% of them, went on to develop full blown alzheimer's disease in a period of five years following the test.

and the key in this field and we're hearing more and more about it, it's really exploding, is identification of patients who are at risk so that then early intervention can occur with medication possibly so that you can stave off the toechlt of the symptoms that make this disease so devastating. >> can we put the graphic back up again? this 36% that had no symptoms whatsoever. what do you extrapolate from that? >> they're saying that might be very helpful in identifying a large population of people who are at high risk for alzheimer's. this is not a black or white scenario, so there are -- do you sometimes see these proteins in brains of people who are not severely symptomatic. so it is not 100%. but in the group that had the mild cognitive impairment, all of those patients with these proteins did go on. so that's 36% represents a population who is at risk. >> let me ask you a hypotheti l hypothetical. get the spinal tap. there are some of these proteins

that you just outlined before. does that mean i'll end up with alzheimer's or we don't know for sure? >> we don't fully understand that yet. and a big focus in this disease in terms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment is obviously the last category, treating those patients. you want to get that ball in motion before someone is so impaired. and sometimes that involves planning, sometimes hopefully that will involve early intervention with medication, but, again, that is a huge segment of the population that we want to target and this is very important. >> in the meantime so many of us do cross words all the time now, do all these other kinds of things to try to keep our brains nimble. >> keep your brain active and as we say before, what's good for the heart is good for the brain. eat a healthy diet, exercise, know your family history. and you'll be hearing more and more about this it seems day to day. >> so many more people. all right. dr. ashton, thanks. coming up next, levi johnston's quest to follow in

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just one week after bristol palin dumped levi johnston because accepted he was obsessed with the limelight, turns out he's got his own reality show. only this one has a wasilla twist. he'll be chasing sarah palin's legacy. pre-david chemicpriya david-cle has more. >> reporter: when bristol and levi jonsed their engagement, rumors of a reality show quickly followed suit. >> brings it toll palin and me vie johnston are a perfect example of new reality stars. they already have a little fame as a result of being related to sarah palin. >> reporter: the two recently went their separate ways. bristol says levi's hunger for the spotlight was partly to blame.

now he's inked a reality show deal that will be all levi and no bristol. the new show called loving levi, the road to the mayor's office, will follow the young father as he campaigns for the top job in his hometown of wasilla, alaska. in a statement to "us weekly," the show's executive producer said, quote, he'll give us a real inside look into who he is as a father, a skilled hunter, an avid dirt biker, and, of course, his journey down the road of small town politics right after he gets his high school diploma. he's part of the latest reality in reality tv. people try to cash in and create industries based solely on their stints on these shows. the most successful example, kim kardashian. she's built a brand that earns more than $5 million a year. >> what is the point of this? >> what do you mean what is the point of this?

you want toe know what your boyfriend is up to. >> reporter: but if levi hopes to replicate kardashian, he'll have to make small town politics in to big time tv. >> the new reality sthars are like come on in, come take my picture, come in my house. see what i look like without my clothes on. >> reporter: given his track record of photo shoots, that's something levi may not have a problem with. priya david-clemens, cbs news, los angeles. >> a lot going on in this story. two of my favorite tidbits. they approached him with the idea. so at first he said i don't really know about this and then he thought maybe i've got something here. and he was asked at one point what his ideas for wasilla are. the answer, you'll have to wait for the show. >> i wonder where his politics are. >> i'm absolutely intrigued. >> left, center, right? >> well, he calls himself half

hollywood, half read nethey can that. >> and avid dirt biker. >> that jumped out at me.can ab that. >> and avid dirt biker. >> that jumped out at me. why would you vote for a guy like that. >> but if it's avid -- i think there's more to levi johnston than meets the eye. we've seen just about all we can. >> we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. [ water ] hey, it's me water. so, you want me to be super amazing right from the faucet,

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it is 7:55. time for news headlines from cbs 5. i'm sydnie kohara. events are planned today in honor of hasanni campbell the 6-year-old boy from campbell reported missing a year ago, still not found. there will be a rally and prayer vigil in hayward. this november's ballot will not feature a bond measure designed to upgrade california's water system. last night the senate and assembly passed two bills to delay the measure until 2012. the governor urged lawmakers to delay that $11 billion measure. he is concerned that voters would turn it down during the bad economy. and a military funeral planned in colma this morning for an army sergeant from oakland who had been missing for 66 years. last week, the defense department announced it identified the rehe he mains of a world war ii air --

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good morning. no major problems but we have slower traffic on eastbound

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>> she understands everything that's happening. also ahead this morning, the really surprising information about dogs who serve in the military. they are also getting posttraumatic stress disorder. what one german shepherd went through. you don't think about it but it makes sense. >> first up jeff glor at the news desk with a check of the headlines. good morning, jeff. >> good morning. a jetblue flight attendant faces charges after losing his cool with a passengers and quitting in dramatic fashion. at jfk airport in new york city with details this morning. michelle, good morning to you. >> good morning, jeff. it's the meltdown that could land steven slater in jail for seven years. passengers say slater lost his cool shortly after jfk flight 1052 landed -- rather jetblue 1052 landed at jfk from

pittsburgh yesterday afternoon. witnesses say he and a passenger got into an argument that escalated after he was hit in the head by the man's suitcase. >> somebody got upset about a bag. i didn't see anything happen. i didn't hear anything happen. one of the flight attendants made this announcement where he swore at a passenger. >> reporter: slater is then said to have grabbed two beers, deployed the emergency slide to make his getaway. police caught up to him later at his home. he will be arraigned this morning for trespassing, for criminal mischief and for reckless endangerment. jeff, back to you. >> michelle miller at jfk airport. michelle, thank you. ford former senator ted stevens may have been on a plane that crashed in western alaska. the single engine plane went down last night 17 miles north of dillingham. an official said steven was among passengers. severe weather is hampering

rescue operations. it's not clear if he survived. a team has been dispatched and expected to arrive at the scene today. one of three escaped inmates remains on the run. they believe he's moved north near glacier park, indiana. another was arrested yesterday. he's believed to be on the run with his fiance and alleged accomplice. permanently stopping the oil flow from bp's blown-out well. mark strassmann in gretna this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. bp still has a long way to go to really fix this disaster. but after three long months of working in the middle of the gulf, the end is now in sight for finishing this relief well. nearly three miles below the gulf surface, slowly and methodically bp engineers drill the last 30 feet of the relief well. by this weekend, they hope to kill the leak for good.

>> mud and cement boats on the surface that are ready to move in and begin the bottom kill when the intercept is complete. >> reporter: after a leak of more than 200 million gallons, little oil now comes ashore. bp has put $3 billion into an escrow account. a down payment on a $20 billion compensation fund for victims. this man will file a claim. he cuts hair in grand isle, louisiana, and his only customers are bp cleanup crews and they will soon be leaving. >> if i lose money, i won't feel bad about holding them responsible for it. they made the mistake. they cut some corners. >> reporter: government scientists estimate 52 million gallons of leaked oil are still unaccounted for. in some marsh areas the cleanup is far from over. >> i think there's a sense urgency to complete the recovery and cleanup as fast as we can. >> reporter: this time of year

the weather is always the wild card in the gulf and could affect the drilling schedule of the relief well, how soon it's finished. there are thunderstorms over florida, could become a tropical storm. but forecasters say there's only a 10% chance of that happening. jeff. >> mark strassmann in gretna, louisiana, thank you. katie couric has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> good morning, a city built on luck. underneath the lights, a darker world where hundreds, perhaps thousands, of homeless people are seeking refuge. we'll take you there tonight only on the "cbs evening news."

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in this morning's healthwatch, the flesh eating bacteria, mrsa effects 94,000 people each year and linked to 19,000 deaths. this woman was pregnant when she got the infection.

after an emergency c-section her son was fine, a happy five-year-old. but the disease horribly ravaged her body hospitalizing her for two and a half years. she joins us exclusively along with jennifer ashton. good to have both of you here. i can't imagine. you have this baby. you're also a pediatric nurse, so you know a lot about what's going on. your son is home and you go home for a few days and then back in the hospital. >> when i was in the hospital i was diagnosed with a blood disorder so i had to have treatment from that as well as see my doctor. i had gotten home from the doctor's visit that morning, went to lay down, had to get up for the nurse that was coming in, and i noticed a huge amount of fluid coming from my c-section wound and i knew that wasn't right. the nurse was there and my family that were there were sure that something was completely wrong. my blood pressure was very low, and they took me back to the

hospital where they rushed me into the operating room, opened me up and realized, you know, i was having this problem. >> it was eating away at your organs, upper organs and ended up eating your flesh. you spent two and a half years in the hospital. what's that time like for you, especially as a new mother. you're worried about your child and here you are worried about whether you're going to make it home to him. >> i was very confused. in the beginning after that, i had surgeries for the month or two after that once a day, sometimes twice a day, going down to about every other day. so i was very confused from the anesthesia. i didn't understand why i couldn't see him. so i was accusing everybody of keeping him away from me. i also thought that he had died and i had done something wrong. so i was being punished. >> none of which was true of course. >> exactly. >> did they give you any indication, just the fact your body can survive that many

surgeries is incredible. did they give you any indication of how you because the this infection or bacteria? >> they don't know. from the treatments i was given for the blood disorder i was roughly around 750 donors at that time as well as i had a central line. i had an open c-section wound at the time. also i'm a pediatric emergency room nurse. so i could have been colonized with that prior to delivery. >> you're around stuff all the time. jen, when you hear this story, it's amazing and wonderful, frankly, that you're here this morning and doing so well. >> yeah. this is really our worst nightmare in the medical profession. i've seen this with a patient. we're talking here about a bacteria that is highly resistant to what we call our big gun antibiotics. so we have always have staph bacteria all over us. about 1% of the population is what we say colonized with mrsa or mrsa, usually believe it or not in the nasal passages.

all it takes is either a sick person in the hospital or a person on the street with an open wound. we'll talk about risk factors in a second. that bacteria gets into the body, can become rampant and gives you a condition like sandy has that literally starts killing the layer of tissue that holds abdominal organs in place. about 50%, one out of two patients with that condition recover from it. >> talk about sobering numbers. what are some of the things we look for to discover whether we have this. >> this is where mrsa lives, daycare, prisons, you see a lot more of this resistant bacteria. anywhere where there's close contact, skin to skin contact, wrestling. again, any compromise in your skin. a cut in sandy's case, she had an open wound from her c-section and iv lines. any compromise in your skin integrity. contaminated items is another factor, sporting equipment,

things at health club, razor blades, do not share those things, sanitize them. lastly, lack of cleanliness. in a hospital we see a lot of this. it's also seen a lot in the community. >> it can look like on your skin, a spider bite or raised bumps. >> it can. the key area, it's red, pink, inflamed, hot to the touch and it spreads rapidly. when you start to get fever, low blood pressure that's an indication it's systemic through your body. sandy was in shock from the hospital. >> we know wash your hands, one of the most important things to do. >> absolutely. >> sandy, two and a half years after that started, you're here, healthy. at one point you had an open cavity in your abdomen. did you ever think you'd be here to celebrate your son's birthday. >> i didn't. i know when i first looked at it, it was very hard. knowing what i had seen in the emergency room, i thought, you know, i can't live through that. you can't live without your

abdomen. an arm, a leg, you know, your vision, you can live without those. but you can't live without your abdomen. so -- i could read it on people's faces. they tried really hard to be encouraging but i could read it. >> but you beat the odds and you're here. thanks so much for sharing your story with us. i know it isn't easy. thanks for being here with your expertise as always. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. [ female announcer ] think thousands of women can't agree on skin care? challenge that with olay. in an independent study of 50,000 consumers presented by better homes and gardens, olay was voted best

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it is estimate that had up to 30% of men and women who return from war struggle with some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or ptsd. turns out that canines who serve our country are also affected and dr. debbye turner bell is here with the story. good morning. >> good morning. when german shepherd gina went to iraq, she was a strong military dog. when she came back, she was a

mess. >> reporter: gina is a highly trained military explosive detection dog. in 2009, she served a six month tour of duty in iraq. the military routinely deploys dogs like gina to combat zones where they serve on the front lines, protecting soldiers from hidden dangers. it is a dangerous job and left gina trauma sized. >> when she came back, she was scared just about everything. anything that made a noise, she didn't want anything to do with. if you took her in the billion, she'd try to hide in a corner or closet or hide underneath the desk. >> reporter: master sergeant eric haynes believes gina's fears stem from one harrowing event. >> while she was going out to one of the patrol areas, going out to raid some facilities that they thought had insurgents in it, one of tfof the vehicles wa

by an ied. >> reporter: the impact left her shell shocked. would you say that she had ptsd? >> i would say yes. obviously ptsd comes from a traumatic event which she enl countered. >> reporter: ten years ago, gina might have been put down, but sergeant haynes felt an obligation to make gina whole again. >> they don't have for anything. food, water, a little bit of petting. they're the most reliable person on the planet. you can't get that from anywhere else. >> reporter: so sergeant haynes started an intense program to bring gina back from the brink, getting her used to simply hearing noises and being around people again. >> i started taking her to staff meetings, so it was a small group of people. once she got enough confidence that she could be around some people, i started taking her back out to the bx, walking around a lot of people, go up and meet people and realize that everybody's not out to get me. >> reporter: it took six months working with gina up to five hours a day.

now gina is back to her old self. >> she would have they ever done that before. >> she's turned in to a dog again. outstanding. >> reporter: just last month, gee that was recertified it for active duty. her new handler, melinda miller, has full confidence in her canine partner. how much do you trust her? >> i trust this dog with my life. i trust this dog on on everything. >> i'm ecstatic with her recovery. there's nowhere but up from here as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: it really is remarkable. although gina has been recertified to active duty, it is unclear whether she'll be able to return to the combat zone. sergeant haynes and sergeant miller will continue working with her for at least another year here before they make the determination where she can go back to a war. >> what a gorgeous animal. beautiful. when you went off to do this story, were you a little bit skeptical? >> not at all. because animals experience anxiety from fears and from traumatic events. if you think about even dogs

that have been in abusive situations that end up in shelters, they come away with fears and phobias. so, no, it would be surprising that some dog is not affected by this as opposed to that is affected. >> so i've got to imagine with a number of animals that have been over this serving and these different capacities, that it's not maybe all that unusual. >> it's not common. here's the thing. the dogs that they select to be military working dogs go through a very extensive screening process. they're looking for particular character traits and personality and temperament. and these are usually the dogs that aren't afraid of anything, so they tend to be less affected. so it's a little surprising that this one was affected so much. >> and in the end, can gina be cured? >> i don't know if cured is the item word because something chemically happens in the brain in these cases are humans and with dogs. however, i believe she can be resocialized and used in situations. they've done the right thing

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i think we need drummers on the plaza on a regular basis. i don't know if we want it every day. >> renaissance fairs are awesome. >> jeff glor summed it up. >> there's a guy on a ladder. that's a good trick. >> the best. >> a little dangerous. >> makes for good drums. just ahead, you remember it well, your parents take to you cloud of dust. perhaps you started cheering, they started crying.

free. there. now parents and kids are talking up to 13 timeses a week. one professor credit as lot of this to the unlimited cell phone plan. and now we're saying that we're a little over connected. yes, there can be too much communication. >> seriously electronically tethered. >> they can't let go and it gets worse after college. so we'll take a look at that and what you may want to do to help set your kids up for a little less tethering. >> julie is in los angeles with a look at her possibly tony award winning moment on stage or is it definite? >> we'll have to see, harry smith, we'll have to see. actually, that's not it at all. i took part in the hilarious show called celebrity autobiography in which actors read from celebrity memoirs that tend to get a bit melodramatic. you'll see how i did with vanna speaks by vanna white.

>> that was a huge best seller. it was giant best seller, several years on the "new york times"s best seller list. >> i can't wait. >> it's good. also coming up in our always popular eat this, not that, segment, this morning our buddy matt bean gives us the scoop on which choices are healthier than others when the ice cream man comes. >> i love this story. i hear the ice cream truck, i feel it calling me. >> harry and i were talking about this. you'll be surprised at the calorie counts. >> i don't think i want to know. >> first, though, lonnie quinn here for dave price with a check of the weather. >> i got to tell you, if you're coming to new york city, you want to have a good time, you don't want to get separated from your grendfriends. so what do you do? you wear kermit the frog green. and i just want you to know, these guys i'm telling you, had

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where are you from? >> california. >> welcome to the show. that's it for weather. let's get inside now. here's erica. this mornings as our back to school series continues, we take a look at i-parenting. traditionally dropping your kids off at college, moving into that dorm room, has been a liberating moment. but not so much anymore. joining us this morning to discuss why, dr. hofer and dr. hartstein. good to have both of you with us. you were actually one of the first people to study this because you noticed a trend. you're always professor, the parent of who college atwo coll.

and you say it goes back to the unlimited cell phone plan. >> so much changed just a few years ago. when you think about what happened when kids went away to college, they called home maybe once a week, but what i started observing was that kids were walking out of class, flipping up their cell phones and calling mom an dad to say i got a c on the calculus test or wait until you hear what happened with my roommate last night. >> isn't that a good thing, though sf we hear so much that kids don't talk to their parents anymore. this is fantastic . >> there are good and bad points on this. i was interested in what's good about this, but also what are some of the negative consequences, what does it mean when kids are so connected that they're not autonomous, independent and growing into adults. >> so with a are twhat are the ? >> the ones who talk the mostau.

>> are they not able to be adults? >> yes, essentially they are really having a very hard time becoming the independent thinkers that we hope moving through adolescence and going to college will allow them to be. they're still relying on their parents to help make big decisions, maybe changes, figure out how to handle situations that we hope they're learning thousand handle on their own. >> 19% of these kids were event mailing papers home for their parents to check, some of their parents had -- you're always going to have pashlrents who ar little more involved, but what have you seen as a reason for really ramping up this connectedness? >> i think that parents are so overinvolved. we learn very early, be part of pta, be the coach, so we learn early be involved and then all of a sudden we're moving through and it's, okay, don't be involved anymore. so i think there is this need to know what's happening at all times and how do you learn as a parent as much as a kid to step back from that.

and that's the challenge. >> we'll get those tipses in a second, but you also found that not only are we really involved with our kids when they're in college and they go away, but it increases actually after they graduate. >> this was the biggest surprise. i think everything in the study has surprised me this so many ways. what we found is that they're connected 13 times a week during the college years and 17 times a week after the college years. >> what are they connected for? is it -- i used to call and say how do you make this recipe. >> do i boil the water before i put the spaghetti in, how do i separate the laundry, whatever it might be. the parents are live and available for this kind of consultation. >> so when do they become adults? >> this is what worries us. >> that's the hard part. >> but they do become adults if the parents learn to back off a little bit. and it's not just about letting go which is what parents have been told to do. it's about letting go while staying connected and how to stay connected in healthy ways.

>> so how do we as parents make sure that we give them the love and the kicks out t out the doo. >> we want to teach early how they can schedule their own time. they go college, they have lots of free time. do they know what to do with it. can they get up in the morning, get to practice, all that suv. we also want to teach them how to manage money. they don't know. now they're at school and they have a budget, but they can burn through money quickly. so you want to teach that early, also. >> no unlimited credit cards. >> because then you're the one paying them off. and we want to teach them thousand ask for help when they need it. this is hard for adults to do, but if kids are starting to feel like they're over their head, we want to teach them that it's okay, valley at a time their worry about that and try to help them problem solve themselves instead of solving it for them. >> and you've also noticed a benefit in your research to kids who are able to break free and be who are independent. >> one of the things we found is that the kids who are the ones

who are good students and the ones who are successful are the ones who are a little bit less contact with their parents, but they procrastinate less, they have higher gpas, better relationships with their parents. all these are really good things for kids to work on. by contrast, the parents who are still regulating their kids, still call to go remind them i have your sill will bus and i can see that you have a test this week, have studied for it, they're the ones still having a difficult time and they're not as happy with the college experience. >> it's such an interesting study. really makes you think as a parent. and think back on your own college experience. great to have you with us. thank you both. julie is joining us now from los angeles with her debut on stage. >> well, an award winning off broadway show is being performed here on the west coast and i recently got a chance to take part. called celebrity autobiography

in their own words, the play features well-known people reading books written would i other celebrities and the results are surprisingly funny. >> my life in high heels by lonnie anderson. >> reporter: brooke shields and fred willard are reading intimate details from the marriage of burt reynolds and lonnie anderson, describing the same night of passion from opposite perspectives. >> me love to me for the first time. he was sweet and tentative and gentle, almost as though he thought i was going to break. >> during the nonstop animal passion -- >> reporter: the show celebrity autobiography, the concept is simple, reading memoirs aloud, making the serious sound silly. >> the fancy dresses she wore cost between $4,000 and $10,000 a shot. but she wore each dress only once. >> it's been photographed.

>> reporter: what did you think when you first heard about this show? >> the minute i heard about it, i said count me in. >> reporter: do you ever read some of these excertificates and say what planet is this person from from? >> absolutely. there's a couple that write these x rated excerpts. don't mention that i enjoy your book. it might open up a whole different thick thing. >> it's not poking fun at anyone in particular. it's poking fun at the celebrity memoir. >> reporter: the obsessed public can't i'm to get enough, so there's no shortage of material. prook shields was in college when she penned her first book. now she want it is in the show. >> you have to. it's so funny and wrong that you have to do it. >> reporter: on your own is out of print, but i found a copy. >> my bad habits are few. one of them is sucking my thumb.

i remember one time when i was really very young, i told a little boy who was on tv to put his thumb this in his mouth because a crook was after him. i don't do these cookie things anymore. thank god. >> reporter: i was wondering. the words of tiger woods published eight years before the scandal are a new addition to the show. >> like a lot of 20-year-olds, i had never seen a putt that i didn't like. >> i think what makes it funny is that it's authentically done. but, hey, if i can read from this -- >> reporter: anything is fair game. >> anything is fair game. >> reporter: then it was my turn on stage to read from van in a white's memoir. the model fame for us turning letters on wheel of fortune for nearly three decades. sure, it's not the most intellectually challenging job in the world, few jobs are -- i

tried to give the audience a new appreciation for the z that a arresteds of the job. my belt broke and nearly fell off, but i just held on to it and kept flipping those panels. >> now, i asked the producer if any of the celebrities whose books are performed ever attend the show. and he told me george take kay of star trek fame recently went and laughed all the way through. so really it's all in good fun. >> i love this and i would love to see it. so what was it like actually performing in the show? >> i wasn't nervous until i was standing in the wings and i heard tate donovan reading from kenny log begins autobiography and everyone was laughing and i was like oh, my god, what if they don't laugh. i was actually given a choice which to read from. let me see if you can guess who the other author was.

i'll give and you few hints. -- no you have to just guess. all right. written by a very famous new york socialite who has authored three books and here are the titles. the first was called for love alone, the secretary was free to love. and the last one is called the best is yet to come. and it's about overcoming divorce because she went new a very, very high profile public split. and her ex-husband -- >> i was going say it's only one new york socialite? >> her ex-husband is known for saying you're fired. >> oh, ivanna about. >> yes, but at the end of the day, i felt confidence choosing from vanna speaks.

i was a little bit nervous. >> we'll watch for brooke shields next. julie, thanks. harry, on to you outside with a very sweet delicious story. much of the country continues to swelter this summer. one way to cool off is to reach for some ice cream. but put down that popsicle. matt bean brand editor at men's health magazine is here to tell us eat this or not that. >> step away from the popsicle. >> although the popsicle may be the right alternative. >> in some cases it might. i hear you're a cream sickle guy. the eat this in this case is this firecracker because it's only 35 calories. if you eat one of these per day, every day for a year, you're saving out pounds by going with the firecracker and not the cream sickle. >> because so many people are on that diet.

so the firecracker is much less. >> only 35 calories. >> let's move on then. we have another choice. the nestle cone vanilla with chocolate swirls versus the nestle triple chocolate king sized cone. >> can anybody guess? which is the better option for you? the huge one? you're wrong. you're fired. no, this guy's got about 350 calories. move on to the little drums, those are only about 130 calories. so this is kind of common sense here. but if you at evident one of these every day for a year versus one of those every day for a year, how many pounds are we talking here? >> probably another 10 pounds about g. >> 23 pounds.

>> wow. here are the categories here. this is the thickers ice cream bar versus the snickers ice cream minis. four pieces. >> because it says mini, that they're better for you. but because they come in a pack of four, it actually adds up to way more calories. you have 180 calories here. over here you have about more than 350 calories in these guys. so definitely smart snacking. do what do i i do, stick a snickers bar in the fridge. >> last but not least. >> mr. softy. >> how about a land for the mr. softy guy. thank you for that. so mr. softy chocolate soft serve ice cream versus regular chocolate ice cream. >> that's right. we're not talking about a huge difference in calories here. four ounces is about 250 calories versus 190 calories for the mr. softy. but what i like about the mr. softy is you have to run down the block to catch the guy in the first place. >> so you're burning calories. it's a little less calorie.

>> crime and punishment. >> and this just illustrates the kind of weather we're having here today. >> it's a beautiful day. >> just a beautiful day. >> be a couple of could that scoops. >> always better to drink it. hope you're having a good summer. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it's a dream job, are you kidding me? what do you want? >> from our dream job series. >> do you have a favorite place now or when you were a kid to go for ice cream? >> when we were on -- we used to

ob vacation with my mom and my grandfather. i don't have a favorite place. you do, though. >> in original field, connecticut. it's one of those old fashioned soft serve places, but the machinery inside is made out of nickel which makes everything that much colder. it is absolutely awesome. >> what do you order when you go there? >> a plane cone. chocolate or if a nil vanilla, way. >> but not the swirl. >> i'll take you to one of the greatest ice cream places in the word. anderson's custard. they do both, but it was a ri ritual for us as a youngster. >> i never actually had custard. >> it's amazing. you can get the sundaes and everything, too, but a line out the door and down the block.

>> harry went to the place i worked all through high school and college in connecticut. and they did serve ice cream. full fat, really bad for you ice cream. could you get vanilla, chocolate, swirl. thanks, lon. >> it comes out of that little machine pretty quickly. >> i had to master it and i also mastered making a milk shake, but that's just for the crew. >> some insider knowledge that only a person who spent a career -- >> spinning garbage bags and fish. >> have a great day, everybody. your local news is next. ,,,,,,,,,,

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headlines... it is 8:55. good morning, everyone. i'm sydnie kohara with your cbs 5 news headlines. coming. it has been confirmed now former senator ted stevens was aboard a small plane that crashed today in southwest alaska. former nasa administrator sean o'keefe also on board. five people on the plane were killed, four survived. the fate of stevens and o'keefe not known. the alaska national guard says bad weather is hampering rescue effort. police have arrested an 18- year-old for sunday night's shooting near union square in san francisco. a tourist from germany walking with her husband was hit and killed by a stray bullet. and today the chp cracking down on drivers who talk on the phone without a hands-free device. it is a zero tolerance campaign in the bay area. anyone caught holding a cell phone while driving could be fined $200. traffic and weather right after this. ,,,,,,,,

our real national pastime? saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. good morning. still not much relief for drivers approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. we haven't seen it this backed up in a long time. backed up well into the macarthur maze. so about a 20-minute wait to get you on the bridge still. it all started with an earlier stall just past the coliseum and it took a little while for bridge crews to get it out of lanes. 880 through oakland, it's

moving better here in the last couple of minutes. it was pretty jammed up past the coliseum. and you're still looking at 10- minute delays northbound towards downtown oakland. westbound 237 slow and go towards silicon valley. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. our forecast here we go this morning, looking out towards san jose, haven't really cleared out just yet. so clouds are still dominating for now. but as we move through the day, how about some sunshine? plenty of sunshine inland. temperatures still mild in the lower 80s. mid-60s around the bay with a mix of sun and clouds. and the lower 60s along the coast with low clouds and fog expected. cool to mild temperatures remain in the forecast for tomorrow. and then take a look. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, we are finally warming up to more seasonal highs. 90s moving back into the bay area. and near 70 degrees around the bay.

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